The Live Green Smoothie Diet

Haven’t posted on this all week, but have still been with it, even though Monday was a day off (my dad’s 70th birthday with associated marginally raw festivities, and I just was too bizzy to prepare properly the rest of the day). In fact, I’ve been happy with whatever percentage I’ve been all week — let’s say in the vinicity of 85% give-or-take, but it’s hard to tell because in fact my appetite has changed. I’m eating more raw during meal time and want less food overall. So… fewer LGSs on a couple of the days technically reduces the raw percentage. But… my habits are excellent. I wake up and generally crave living things.

I still have a general pattern, consistent with past experiences of adhering to a high-raw diet: I like a “sweet” at some point in the day. Not candy (ew), nothing too-sweet… just a sweet non-raw thing, something pleasurably tasty. It’s like a ritual, and I’m very cool with it.

I also like something salty, but that can be had with good natural sea-or-crystal salt in a fab raw meal, and that has mostly been the case this week, as the LGS Daily Recipes have been quite *yum*. To wit, this Caesar-type salad, and this other Caesar-type salad with mushrooms (oh… heaven)!

One truly remarkable bit: have been working out increasingly hard, and have had no residual soreness. In fact, I started dance practice in a studio environment again this week for the first time in over a year and half, and I am working my body harder than I have in a very, very long time.

Yet…I have no need of Advil, Ben Gay, or any other comforting or otherwise pain-relieving substance. I feel my muscles and connective tissues recovering so quickly (they feel truly far more “sproingy” than in any recent time), and I have Just. So. Much. Energy. It’s truly remarkable.

I’ve said that Live Green Smoothie are like “Liquid Sunshine” in your bloodstream, and that is just so true! Life… vitality… joy… youthfulness… balance… peace… calm. All qualities that LGSs exhibit when they are coursing through my bloodstream, in any event!

I’m not going to post what I ate today, for brevity’s sake, but I will return to that. And I have continued to track costs. The LGS 85% Challenge as a project to track and reveal “what living at roughly 85% raw looks like” continues to live on.

One thing I will say… this morning, when I famously tend to desire crunchy, bready things, I just didn’t want any of that. I reached for a banana… a mango… an avocado… and a sprinkling of raw cane sugar, to assemble the brekkies shown here. It was lovely. Filling. Scrumptious. And that’s what happens after 2-1/2 weeks endeavoring to lean into a diet of approximately 85% raw and living foods!